To-day I have two methods to suggest. The first is to acquaint 'ut 400,000,000 people with our pre. sent position. We are just now the crisis between life and death, at the juncture when We must essay calamity and seck for happiness, avoid death and tive. How this is to be done we must first, clearly; understand, and then we shall npturally be able to put into practice. Gentlemen, if you would know what. it means for anything to be learnt with difficulty but practised with ease. Just examine my theory. China has been conquered because she did not know that the was in danger of being conquered; if she had known at first, the probability is she would not have succumbed. The ancients said, "If there are no fememy countries and outside disturbances, the nation is permanently' lost." They also said, "Many distyerses make the State prosperous." These two expressions are exactly. in accordance with our ideas. For instance, take the first expression about enemy countries and outside disturbances. We know very well that a country that has no outside troubles considers itself safe, and being as one of the world's strong-eat nations on which foreigners dare not encroach, does not think it necessary to' provide national defences. But when outside distur-
Dances ara, the country is congyer-With regard to the expression, "Many distresses make the State; yrosperpus," we also know that on account of such, troubles, the country repses itself to war. T) exactly represents our ideas According to my fourth lecture, if we want fo restore our nationalism we roust know that China at the present time is m country with many Gistresses, and that we are in a helpless condition. Knowing that we have already lost our nationality we must seck to recover it. If we do not really know that we need to regain our nationalism then we are for ever without hope, and before Jong the Chincee race wil be exter mate China can be conquered every day, because our army and navy Tave not made preparations for national defence. At whatever time foreigners rush in, at that_ time be conquered. (Editori Note: A long recount of the mil tary and navel strength of Japan, merica, Great Britain, axd France, eatinatey of the Hime it wold unite as a whole, and that this will always be so. China doos not need rely upon herself to prevent keing conquered Now this iden of solely depending on others and not relying on one selfs lat i Just looking upwards and trusting £ luck? Tp look wards and trast to Tuck is not These silly and fanciful ideas are absolute nonsense, 'The Great Por ish to conquer China, ler that if they try to do it merely by military force, it may mean the Beginning of a war like the Great Baropean War of a few years ago, which will result in defeat and' loss on all sides and no Foreign govern-is very Bieaty, and do ct with simply use military power. If the Great Pewers rely only on: military force conquer China they cannot avoid acting to war amongst themselves, They may be able to prevent a clash with regard to questions of equal interest and the balance of power, Lut when they are in control they will be unable to avoid it. Once the clash comes, st will menu great Josse9 to all of them, The Great Powers see this very clearly, 80 now-a-days they do not advocate wax, but propose a reduce ition of armaments, They only allow Japan to have battleships to the aggregate "of 300,000 tons; HRS S24, Azarlen gee miedo 00,090 tons each. The conference that was held wap ostensibly for 'the limitation of armaments, byt. really was oyer the Chinese ques tion; how to divide up China' rights and privileges without coming {nto collision with each other, United Cantrot I have already said that countries arhich vse political pewee to senauer thers, have two methods: Milit force" and diplomacy, Dlitary force employs rifles and guns, ard these were used we should kn how to oppose them, If diplomacy. employed, all that is needed is a sheet of paper and a pen. The use of such articles in the conquest of country is something that we do rot know how to combat, When the Washington Conference was held, China appointed delegates and. the saxbjects discussed relating to China were manifestly for the benefit of China. " But not long after the Conference, the newspapers of all ries reported a "united con and this talk of united gcntrol became daily more common. The unanimous decision of all countries was to devise a sativfactory method of destroying Ching. 'This method to be used in future was not to move armies and send genbonts, but by means of a. sheet of paper and a pen, enter into a substantial agreement by which China should: be destroyed. 'To destroy China' by means of "arms and warships would mean 10, 40 or 50 days, but the method of well arranged ce-operation meant that China could be conquered by the diplomatic officers. of all countries sitting in one place and each igning his name, This name~ igning could be done in one marne ing, therefore by such an agreement, China could ye destroyed in one To destroy nation in one morning is not without precedent. For instance, the Poland of former times was partitioned by Russi, Germany, and Austria. 'The former dividing up of Poland was accomplished and settled in one' morning by these powers and Poland was destroyed. 1
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